Frederick Moulaert's path :

1964
Birth in Ghent, Belgium

1980
First concerts : 
The Police - Queen - AC/DC - Kiss (with Iron Maiden) - Bob Marley, Santana, The Cure - ...

1981

• February:
  First time seeing Judas Priest (with Saxon)
• March:
  First time seeing Motörhead
• October:
  First time seeing Ozzy Osbourne (with Saxon)
• December:
  Judas Priest again (with Def Leppard & Accept)
  
  

1982

• June:
  First time meeting with Iron Maiden
• August:
  Reading Rock Festival - Reading, England
  Iron Maiden & MSG as headlining. Steve Harris gave me and my bro 2 All Access Passes for the whole festival. That's were we've met and talked to Lemmy (and many others) for 3 days.
• December:
  First time seeing and meeting Rainbow
• Extensive concerts shootings in Belgium and France
  
  

1983

• April:
  My first commissioned work : photo shooting with Accept in Antwerp, Belgium
• June:
  Heavy Sound Festival - Bruges - Belgium (where we've met Lemmy again)
• September:
  Sunrise Festival - Mulhouse - France
  This festival was cancelled to extreme weather conditions. But me & my bro got to meet Anvil, Black Sabbath, B.O.C, Lemmy (again), and the Venom trio. Great memories.
• October:
  First time seeing Black Sabbath (with Ian Gillan)
• November:
  Steve Harris gave me a private bass lesson on my 1977 Fender Precision Bass
• December:
  First time seeing and meeting with Ronnie James Dio
  
  

1984

• January:
  A crazy evening spent with Judas Priest before and after their show in Brussels (with Ted Nugent)
• February:
  First time meeting Metallica (a Sunday afternoon in a small restaurant in Poperinge, B) when touring as the opening act for Venom 
• June:
  Heavy Sound Festival - Poperinge - Belgium (Merciful Fate, Metallica, Twisted Sister, Motörhead)
• Extensive concerts shootings in Belgium, France & Holland
• November:
  Meeting Metallica again (Ride The Lighting tour) where I did a video interview with the band
  
  

1985

• May:
  Heavy Sound Festival - Poperinge - Belgium (Warlock, Pretty Maids, Lee Aaron, Slayer, UFO)
  First time seeing and meeting Slayer
• Extensive concerts and festivals shootings in Belgium, England, France, Germany & Holland
• Publications in various rock magazines
  
  

1986

• March:
  First time meeting with Helloween
• April/May: 
  I sent some live photos of Helloween by mail to their management (hoping that they will use some). At the end of my letter, I signed with a little drawing of a character with a pumpkin head...
• June:
  "FATALITE" a 4 pages short story published in Tintin Magazine
• July:
  I receive a thank you letter from Helloween asking for more drawings
• August:
  M.O.R. Nürnberg & Mannheim - Germany (Warlock, MSG, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Ozzy, Scorpions)
• September/October: 
  Many fax exchanges with Helloween's management regarding my drawings
• November/December:
  Helloween send me the whole song-list and lyrics for their forthcoming album Keepers Of The Seven Keys
  

1987

• May:
  The Helloween album Keepers Of The Seven Keys comes out (including my first drawings)
• June/July/Aug:
  Several publications in "Rue du Sourire" a professionnal comic fanzine
• Sept-Oct:
  First trip to the USA (California)
  > Red Hot Chilli Peppers as a guest of Capitol Records
  (The Roxy, West Hollywood) 
  > The Ramones as a guest of Johnny Ramone
  (Hollywood Palladium, LA)
• Nov/Dec/Jan: Road Trip to India
  
  

1988

• January: Back from India.
• May:
  First time seeing live and meeting with Alice Cooper
• August:
  Helloween's Keepers Of The Seven Keys (Part II) album is released worldwide.
• August:
  Monsters Of Rock Festivals in Donington + Holland & Germany (Iron Maiden, Kiss, David Lee Roth, Guns 'n Roses, Megadeth, Helloween,...) in Donington Steve Harris gave me his own Artist's All Access Pass
• December:
  Helloween ask me to create a front cover design for a forthcoming live album
  
  

1989

• March:
  Publication of "HOT TEACHER" a backcover comic strip for the famous Fluide Glacial (France) 
  
• April: 
  Release of Helloween's Live in The UK Live album
• September > November: 
  2,5 months Road Trip (Northbound and Southbound) to the USA / Meeting with Sepultura in NYC
  
  

1990

• January : I was required to do my national service for 20 months in Belgium.
  That's where I learned to use a Mac (with Photoshop 1.0)
• Since that year, I've started to limit the number of concerts I photograph. This is mainly because I have less free time and I have a girlfriend who lives in Paris whom I try to see as often as possible during my "permissions" to leave the country
  
  

1991

• Early August:
  I finished my 20-months mandatory civil service
• 21st August: 
  Helloween's The Best, the Rest, the Rare release
• End August:
  Hanging out in Brussels, record stores and libraries along with James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet (prior to their show with AC/DC and Mötley Crüe).
• November :
  Slayer in Brussels + Nirvana in Ghent
  
  

1991-1995
First job as Art Director
for PHB Communication & Marketing 
Working 100% on Mac (Photoshop, Illustrator & Quark X-Press)

I still photograph some concerts, but since the number of accredited photographers has increased, too many restrictions have piled up and the pleasure of shooting live bands has diminished

• July 1994:
  Helloween's Master Of The Rings album release (for which I did everything from A to Z on my computer)
• July 1994:
  First time seeing and shooting TOOL !
• Aug 1994:
  Metallica in Florida for the two last concerts of their US Tour as VIP guest. Crazy nights out with Kirk Hammet & friends
• Nov 1994:
  Helloween's Master Of The Rings Tour - This is the last time I've met the band in the flesh
  
  

1995-1998
Art Director for Leo Burnett Advertising
Mainly for the Philip Morris Group (Marlboro, L&M, Merit)

• 1996 :
  On tour in Australia with Channel Zero
  (as Tour manager and Lighting Operator) and got my hair shaved off in Sydney Harbour.

 

1998
Creation of Hypnotized srl
Graphic Design & Image Manipulations

• 1998-2002: Art Direction, design & photo retouching
• 2002-2010: Web Design & Art Direction
• 2011: Hiring a top-notch developper,
  Stéphane Turrin (a former intern)
• 2011-Now: Web Development & Web Design
  
  

2012
First trip to Mauritius

2017
Creation of Hypno Luxo Ltd
Web Development & Web Design

• June: Moving to Mauritius
  
  

2021
Moving from Pereybere (North) to Albion, Black River (West)

2024
Photographic participation to "Heavy Sounds in the West" a 400 pages full-color book that recounts the coming-of-age of the heavy metal and hardcore music scenes in West Flanders in Belgium. 55 of my photos are published.

2026
Metal Blade Records releases the Slayer's Hell Awaits 40th Anniversary Box Set.  20+ of my photos taken back in 1985 are published on the book & booklets of this collection release.